That’s right folks, at the end of December, we’ll be moving into a new office space—just down the street from our current location. If you’ve been in Camas, you may remember Artistic Home and Garden. We’ll be taking over the front end of their space and making it into our own little Workshed haven as of January 1, 2009. Our new address will be:

421 NE Cedar St.
Camas, WA 98607

We’ll have the same old phone number and fax number, as well as the same PO Box address.

We hope you enjoy your new year as much as we plan to enjoy ours!

Hi everyone. I wanted to take a moment to update you on our office status during the inclement weather we’ve been having here in the Northwest lately. Workshed’s policy is typically to follow the school closures in Camas. When we close due to inclement weather, we generally telecommute and are available to answer questions via e-mail.

Additionally, Workshed will be CLOSED during the following dates:

• Wednesday, December 24 - Friday, December 26
• Thursday, January 1

Happy holidays to everyone!

I wanted to take a moment out to shift focus from internal chest-thumping to a pet project one of our employees has been working on for some time, which has become an invaluable tool for many a web developer.

Oscar Godson, one of our designer/developer folks,  has created his own web app called Project Deploy*. It’s a genius tool that speeds of the process of generating a ready-to-go web site framework so you can quickly get started on your new web project. Select a few radio buttons, choose your flavor of XHTML, set some more options and BOOM! there you go. Instant web site skeleton ready for the skinning.

Not only has he created a great tool, but he’s also gotten the traffic for Project Deploy* into the 35,000 rank on the Alexa index. A truly impressive feat that is further proof he had a great idea and ran with it.

Congrats, Oscar!

While we don’t like to get all hoity toity around here, it’s getting hard to ignore the number of awards that have been given to projects with which we’ve been involved lately. It’s not like we’re out there begging for awards in the streets, but heck, if they keep giving them out, we’ll keep taking them!

This time, it’s the Zookbinders web site we developed on behalf of SDM Marketing, with the design provided by PBR Design. Workshed did all of the information architecture, wireframes, slicing, XHTML/CSS templates, SEO, Flash development, PHP development and custom CMS development (built on our very own Pegboard platform), as well as providing dedicated hosting services in our colocation facility.

The award was from the Summit International Awards — in the category of Emerging Media. The site was presented a Leader award. Of the approximately 700 entries from numerous countries only 12% earned recognition. There are 3 levels that were recognized: visionary, innovator and leader.

Workshed is extremely proud to have been a part of this project and thanks SDM Marketing, PBR Design and most importantly, the fine folks at Zookbinders for allowing us to be a part of it.

On Friday, December 5, Workshed will be celebrating the launch of a new web site for our clients at Jonesy’s Auto Restoration. The new Jonesy’s site allows them to share their work with the world, communicate with their clients via private project blogs, invoice and receive payment for their customer work online and manage their web site content all through a custom-built CMS based on our Pegboard platform.

Everyone’s welcome to attend. You can find out more about Jonesy’s, about the work we do and you can enjoy some live music from local indie act, Hellokopter. Did we mention the free snacks and drinks?

The event starts at 5:30 and goes until 8 p.m.

See you there!

Workshed Creative Agency
415 NE Cedar St.
Suite B (Downstairs)
Camas, WA 98607